Andy's RSS feeds backup
In the beginning I started collecting links with bookmarks and curated them into bookmark pages I could keep up on a website, but they were unwieldy for the intermittent and irregular new content. Then I discovered RSS via the Google Reader and quickly became an avid user of it for all the sites I visit that have occasional posts such as blogs, comics, podcasts, most of which readily supported the very simple RSS protocols. I still use my bookmarks and the bookmark pages, the first for regular reads that don't have a good RSS interface and as a temporary holding spot, and the second for reference materials.
With the demise of Google Reader, I found myself hunting for a suitable replacement. While I tried various ones, I initially built this as a functional backup and will sporadically update it as my backup. I quickly settled on the Old Reader, and though as their free offering maxes out at 100 feeds, that has kept my reading to a tight list. While I've had to drop some sites for various reasons, I keep them here(but generally don't check those links) for historical/histerical purposes with notes as examples of Link Rot, as well as a backup because stuff happens.
An RSS 'client' is the agent/app/service that regularly checks if the site you are watching has new content with the RSS protocol and then presents them to you in a range of possible ways so that you can read them at your leisure, and not part of the fire-hose that is social media. The RSS 'client' is called a feed aggregator, and there are so many choices (list) to choose from, whether for your notebook, handbrain/device, or as a web page. First you choose one and sign up and/or install it, and in it you add feeds to it. Often the feed it just the website address or just putting the domain name in, will let your aggregator find the standard feed links. Add a few such sites, perhaps using the lists below as starter suggestions (look at them first). Then just make sure you open this client most days, and soon you will see the power, and before long you may well be trying other client/aggregators to find the one that works for your brain flow best.
Some say that RSS is 'dead', but far from it. Many sites still have it as it is a default with WordPress created ones. With all the issues of the gated communities of most social media, who manipulate what you see for their benefit, more than your choice, there is a call for more open standards on this front, and RSS is it. For having a real choice in following creators, RSS is by far the best way to give both sides the control they want, rather than what the algorithms dictate what you should see or your content be seen. In many ways, RSS is a young protocol. It is simple and works, but it could use some enhancement and more of an ecosystem as described in What RSS Needs.
Comics for that smile and giggle to make the days easier
- CommitStrip
- CustardFist (often NSFW)
- Drive Comic stopped rss feed in 2022, have to follow manually now.
- Dork Tower
- Freefall on purrsia.com - no RSS feed last looked for
- General Protection Fault: The Comic Strip. Jeff's non-RSSed Blog.
- Girl Genius
- Goblins
- It Never Rains - no RSS feed, and not likely with the current site design that otherwise works so well for the artist.
- Maximumble
- The Oatmeal - Comics, Quizzes, & Stories
- On The Fasttrack, posts on Twitter
- Order of the Stick
- Pebble and Wren
- PvPonline RSS
- Sarah's Scribbles
- Savage Chickens
- Schlock Mercenary. And why we love this webcomic.
- Sluggy Freelance
- Table Titans
- The Joy of Tech
- Ubersoft.net - Technology Is Not Your Friend
- xkcd
- xkcd blog
Comics - inactive, or retired
- The PC Weenies cut for time
- Spacetrawler Story completed
- One Way Story completed
- Heal Yourself, Skeletor finished, for now?
- The Trenches cut for time
- Bizarro Blog!
- Three Jaguars Comics finished?now something else?s
- Dilbert Daily Strip nolonger publicly available for free
- Minimumble
- User Friendly gone?
- Remotes 'N' Dice was at www.remotesndice.com but retired and gone on to other things including my new spyguy sketch
- FaaS and Furious Stalled and dropped to make room
- Realm of Atland Story completed? M.I.A.
- Buck Godot Comic Story completed
- What's New with Phil and Dixie! Story completed
- Monster Pulse Story finished
Blogs -Tech
- Andy Konecny
- Axis of Easy, -feed
- Blair Tehcnology
- Bob Jonkman's Not for Reading
- Laura's Lab at Chappell U
- CQure Academy. Pronounced SeeCure
- DadHacker used to be dadhacker.com
- Danny Pehar
- DomainSure rss
- EasyDMARC
- easydns rss
- FreeSpeech mostly on DNS and domain
- HostPapa
- Haft of the Spear
- I, Cringely
- InfraGeeks
- Javvad Malik
- Julia Evans
- Buckley's Blog KP
- KnowBe4
- Konecny Consulting
- Marko Denic
- Backup Central's Restore it All
- Mr. Backup
- mwpreston.net
- NirBlog
- Osterman Research
- Packet-Foo
- Rose Security
- SANS Internet Storm Center
- SecTor
- Scott Lowe
- Simon Flood KP rss
- Sniff free or die
- Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat
- SUSE Communities
- SysAdmin118 Expounds
- Turning it off and on again KP
- vMiss.
- WahlNetwork, - his 'Why Blog' post
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Tech retired
- CIRA news until they dropped RSS :(
- Caledonia: Danita's work blog Semi retired
- cmdln.org (a sysadmin blog)
- Inside Laura's Lab posts under ChappellU now
- Digital Defence, Security News missing an RSS feed now
- DiscoPosse - Using the chicken to measure IT
- Draios: SysDig tool dropped since they don't do SUSE
- Ed Anderson posts in Linked In now
- Exile From the Herd shifted posting else where
- Cool Solutions: GroupWise
- Osterman's Blog
- The Old Reader: behind the scenes
- McAfee Avert Labs stopped being useful to me
- Nickapedia
- Novell Oddities (Snickerdoodle Mary)
- Open Source Strategy Research Blog inactive, retired, and gone
- Standalone Sysadmin
- Tom's Tech Schmorgesblog. Has fadded from tech and active posting.
- Toronto VMware User Group Mostly reposts
- Sniff free or die (WireShark)
Blogs - Eco/Health
- Corporate Knights
- Post Carbon Logistics rss
- EcoClipper
- Ecosophia
- Toward Ecosophy
- Food Allergies Rock - Kyle Dine's Blog
- Garden Myths
- Living Low in the Lou - about Clair
- Low-Tech Magazine. Pre Solar site migration for old content.
- The netCommons Project rss
- No Tech Magazine
- Our Finite World
- SAILCARGO INC.
- Weekly notes from Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm
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Blogs - Eco/Health retired
- Why Me? Stopped posting here, merged into her DLKLife blog
- The Archdruid Report Closed and moved to below, contents mirror elsewhere
- Clean Break RSS feed had issues, so paused
- Collapsing Now
- Human Power Plant. Stalled project, but still interesting content left so far.
- Nature Lovers Meeting Place! Last posted 2012, status unknown
- Poverty Prepping
- Star's Reach. Now a Book but still on the WayBack Machine
- RSSless Transition Toronto
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Blogs - Misc
- Adventuring in Chaos
- The Aurora Awards Canadian people choice SF&F awards. Old Site.
- CSFFA. Home of the Prix Aurora Awards
- The Eglinton CrossTown RT construction
- Craftkitten
- CultureWizard Blog
- DLK, life how I see it
- Eric Choi
- HowardTayler.com
- The Hugo Awards
- The Imposter Syndrome Network Podcast
- Marie Bilodeau
- Michael Hicks - all
- The Murverse Annex
- G.R.R.Martin's Not A Blog current (2018) home
- One Cobble at a Time
- Planetary Society
- Rodney M Bliss
- Stephen Pearl's Musings
- Still Drinking tales of a programmer's life
- Tom Scott's updates feed
- Keri's WOB talk. inactive awhile, hmm.
- Writing Excuses - Feed
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retired misc
- Rick Mercer Retiring?
- UnMarketing An educational blast, just takes time.
- What If?
- Naziyah Mahmood
- The AntiGuru
- Leftover Chocolate Stitches
- dancing about the edge of the blade stopped updating here after divorce.
- Dilbert: Scott Adams blog. Site gone and content behind paywalls.
- Howard Tayler Now shifted to HowardTayler.com
- John Joseph Adams
- Elmsdale Estates The Moved
- Xorton's Rant
- Raven's Hollow drifted elsewhere
- Detective Docherty drifted elsewhere
- G.R.R.Martin's Not A Blog old home
- Fantasy Rantz Sarah and friends, drifted elsewhere
- Brandon Draga (not a pseudonym)
- Ian Pattison CNE, CCNA
- Ian's Damaged Mind stopped blogging
- Madly Off In All Directions still not writing
- Michael Hicks - PodCast
- Myke Cole
- History's Lessons retired?
- There, I Fixed It
- Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes
- Clients From Hell
- Regret the Error
- Badass of the Week
- Jenn Croft Cosplay
- Xorton's Rant. Changed focus and where he posts. still fun reads.
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The authoritative version of this is maintained on Andy's notebook
Last Updated 2024-09-07 by Andy Konecny of Konecny Consulting Inc.